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Wienermobile gets grilled by Arizona police You just can’t drive a giant hot dog around these days without getting crap from the cops. Police in Tuscon pulled the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile over on Wednesday afternoon and ran the plates to make sure it was street legal. After the “Y-U-M-M-Y” plates came back reported stolen, the cops took no chances and called for backup. Luckily, it was all a misunderstanding, and no shots were fired. The officer who pulled the vehicle over is now a bit of a laughingstock on the force. Says a colleague: “He’s just like, ‘I don’t believe this is happening.’ ” —Posted by Tim Nudd

June 29, 2007 in Oscar Mayer | Permalink

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I guess this just furthur ads to the pulicity of Oscar Mayer, although I really wonder how they found people to go on this wiener road trip of there own accord. Are they well paid roadies or just hotdog fanatics?

Posted by: Street Attack | Jun 29, 2007 12:22:22 PM

It's a highly competitive application process, believe it or not. For PR-type majors, it's considered a top-notch job out of college. Recent grads helm the wieners, then often go on to nice publicity jobs.

Posted by: DavidGriner | Jun 29, 2007 2:04:03 PM

heh heh, heh heh. he said "weiners."

Posted by: beavis | Jun 29, 2007 2:41:13 PM

Unless that thing has nitrous, there must be a few of them. I saw one in Northern NJ Thursday.

Posted by: makethelogobigger@earthlink.net | Jun 29, 2007 4:14:38 PM

Believe there's six of them on the roads currently.

Posted by: Tim Nudd | Jun 29, 2007 7:29:09 PM

Has anyone not assumed it would be street legal? Doesn't everyone know about the Weinermobile(s)?

Gee, I wonder, does it run on biodiesel and smell like french fries?

Posted by: Tdave | Jun 30, 2007 6:23:56 AM

For some reason I crave a hot dog now. :-)

Posted by: Propaganda Minister | Jul 1, 2007 4:48:39 PM

Looocy! It's all a publicity stunt! Eeek! Grabitch!

Posted by: Ricky Ricardo | Jul 2, 2007 10:53:37 AM

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